Dred+Scott+v.+Sandford+(1857)

Dred scot V.S Sandford

Parties: Dred Scott V.S Sandford who was Dred scotts owner Other important Individuals:Eliza Irene Sandford, Dr.calvin Chaffee who is a Abolitionist and member of Congress arranged owner ship of Dred scott transferred to Taylor Blow for Manumission.Taylor Blow son of Dred scotts origional owner who supported scotts legal cases and freed scott after the case.Supreme court majority: Robert B. Taney, chief justice and Robert Grier. Supreme court Dissenting: John mclean and Benjamin R. Curtis.

Social and political background during this time: slavery was going on during this time and the civil war was also going on

Dred scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court revearsals, Dred scotts case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. The Dred scott case was the most infamous (the most baddest and famous) case in its history, Chief justice Roger B. Taney decided that all people of Africans who were slaves as well as those who were free could never become Citizens of the united states and therefore could not sue in Federal Court. Chief justice Taney also Anounced that the Federal Government did not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories. Scott couldnt do nothing but remain as a slave.

March of 1857 the decision was well received by slaveholders in the south, many northerners were outraged they were pissed off. the decision greatly influenced the nomination of Abraham lincoln to the republican party and his election, which in turn led to the south from the union. Lincoln was now the president in 1861. shortly after this the civil war began.

Peter Blows sons,childhood friends of scott, who had help pay scotts legal fees through out the years. After the supreme courts decision, the former master sons purchased scott and his wife and set them free. scott and his wife were finally free.

Dred scott and his wife were finally free.Dred scott found a job as a porter at barnum's hotel in St.Louis, where guest or others look at Mr.Scott not as a slave but a celebrity.Mr.scott died on september 17,1858, he was buried in wesleyan cemetary.